Musical Speedrunning

• Tempo

A music-based speedrunner that hit top 5 trending on Steam within 2 days of launch. Led core game loop, tile system design, achievement framework, and player progression

League of Legends Character Exploration & Concept

• Howzer

A complete class design system: full LoL champion kit with unique resource mechanic, 5 abilities, passive interactions, and narrative integration - Showcased at an art exhibition titled "Inside Howzer's Mind"

Analogue 5-Player Boss v Hero Card & Dice Game

• Final Stand

A 4v1 asymmetric tabletop game, one Monster player against four Heroes, designed for replayability across different groups and playstyles. Inpsired by DnD gameplay mechanics and narrative

League of Legends System Designed Item

• Hextech Synthesizer

A custom enchanter item. Includes a fully dynamic damage/effectiveness calculator in Google Sheets for cross-item balancing at every level and build

Little Alchemist Meets Cozy Witch

• Little Elementals

A cute demo involving little elementals exploring UI/UX design as well as combining gameplay and theme

Hack N Slash PvE - Enemy & Creature Design Concept

• Okon

A hack-and-slash concept with adaptive enemy AI: the game's spawn logic reads how you fight and counters it, ex. melee players face more Snipers, kiting players spawn more Slashers. Six enemy archetypes, 13 side-grade weapons, and a Unity-blocked level inspired by Doom and Turbo Overkill

Gameplay trailer ft. done by Aestronauts Team

Developer: Aestronauts
Platform: PC, Steam
Genre: Speed-Running, Music
Model: Single Purchase
Team Size: 8
Dev Cycle: ~ 3 months
Engine: Unity

Systems - Progression - Live Ops Gameplay Loop - UI/UX - Concept to Release - Rapid Prototyping - Shipped Title - In-Engine Implementation - Playtesting - Live Content Update

Music based speed running game

Tempo

Tempo was a 1-week incubator program challenge that continued development for a couple of months until its release. Our challenge was to design a speedrun-themed experience with a focus on replayability. The basis of the game is drawn from traditional rhythm game design but remixed to appeal to the speedrunning community, with the addition of competition between players via timed leaderboards and the ability for players to skip ahead in maps.The game was released on Steam and reached the top 5 in Steam's free-to-play titles.

+ Brainstormed, developed, and iterated on core gameplay loop where players utilize keys to navigate through maps to their own rhythm+ Developed and implemented play incentives for players, including achievements and player customization options+ Conceptualized, created and implemented assets for level environments, including shader creation, visual effects, models, and UI/UX+ Created promotional materials for distribution on Steam and other platforms+ Presented game at GDC under NYC Pavilion the EXPO hall

• Play for Free on Steam
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Update Launch Trailer

All Achievements added to the game I co-designed as well as their icons

Tempo love tap update

Spirit crosser update

Although Tempo is considered done, we were inspired by GDC to create a free content update to the game for our remaining player base. This included new levels, a new map, a bunch of new visual cosmetics, some QoL updates, achievements, and player rewards.

+ Worked on player rewards featuring the Achievement system and all of their icons, as well as Player cosmetics that can be earned in-game+ Created assets and set dressing for the level, including several shaders and particle effects, 3D models, and placement within the level+ Concepted and created Spirit-themed level

Sample Gameplay

Developer: Solo
Platform: PC
Genre: Fantasy, Alchemy, Combination
Model: Demo
Dev Cycle: ~ 1 week

Rapid protoyping - in-Engine Coding & Implementation - UX/UI Design - Comination Mechanics

Cozy witch creates new friends

Little Elementals

Little Elementals is a short demo made to have visuals inform that inform gameplay. Important themes for this game were worldbuilding through the environment assets and using only UI to convey intent. I referenced games like "Little Alchemists" where mixing potions was the core gameplay loop, but also adapted it to fit the theme of “Cosy witch creating new elementals with bubbly personalities”.This game was created almost exclusively by me in Unity which slight programming help from a friend.

+ Designing and tailoring to a set thematic+ Gameplay design inspired by games like "Little Alchemy"+ All asset creation and implementation+ Unity C# programming

• Play on Itch.io (full screen it)
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Game Ruleset

Game positioning and the sketch that started the game ideation

Systems - Balance - Asymmetric Design - Tabletop Design - Iterative Design - Playtesting

Dice and card Party monster slaying game

Final Stand

Final Stand started from a question I kept coming back to: how do you make a 4v1 feel fair for both sides? One player controls a powerful Monster while four Heroes coordinate to survive or beat an alternate win condition. The core tension lives in that number gap, the Monster needs to feel genuinely threatening without being unbeatable, and the Heroes need to feel capable without making the Monster irrelevant.This project was an interesting challenge for me. I was intrigued by both the flavouring of table top games like Dnd and Pathfinder and also the adaptability of games like Uno. Players can change the rule sets to fit their tables, but the default rule set is both fun and balanced to get in and get started.

+ Designed for accessibility without sacrificing depth, dice and playing cards are universal, so the game runs at any table with no setup friction while still rewarding strategic play.+ Created a system that encouraged player creativity and roleplay+ Creating a system that has a defined ruleset but is very easy to adapt to any table

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Illustration of Howzer
within his lab in Piltover

Character kit and design - system balancing for player enjoyment & enemy counterplay - narrative inclusion - interation and development

Lol character concept

Howzer

Howzer is a support specialist hailing from Piltover. He was created for an exhibition where I wanted to tie him into an existing universe and storylines. For the exhibition, I also stepped into his mind and did journal entries as if he wrote them, writing about his thoughts, meta ability notes, and (taking a note out of his best friend's book) his exploration of Runterra searching for interesting ingredients for his potions.

+ Analysis and creation of a champion in an existing universe (League of Legends) filling a niche within its champion roster, a complex support+ System Design revolving around creating his abilities and balancing as well as Narrative Design tieing his gameplay with his story and personality+ Iterative design pattern of reassessing his goal and making tweaks to move closer+ Presented a game art exhibition to other devs and visual enjoyers

• Character Doc
• Hextech Synthesiser (custom item)
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“This should help... I mean I’m pretty sure I think it does”
- Howzer

Calculator comparing Hextech Syn. versus other League Items

system design for a design niche and balancing - creating a backstop for data analysis between options - fitting for a pre-exisiting economy and design space

lol custom support item

Hextech Synthesizer

Inspired by LoL Items that are related / from in-game characters. Enchanter-themed Sheen item that has inworld relevance to Howzer.I also created a damage calculator that takes in a champion's base value and item build to calculate different items effectiveness in Google Sheets.

+ Analysis and Understanding of other items in Hextech Synthesizer's class and creating one that fills a new niche+ System Design for Item creation and balancing for its intended class and to prevent abuse from others

• Howzer Character Doc
• Damage Calculator
• Read More

Concept for Creature Design and an overview of the church battlefield

Developer: Solo
Platform: PC, Console
Genre: Fantasy, Action, HacknSlash, Survival
Model: Concept
Modes: PvE

Combat - Enemy AI - Systems - Encounter - Weapons - Level Design - Solo Development - GDD Documentation

Demons, Swords, and Guns oh my!

Okon level Design
& Game Concept

Okon is a hack-and-slash survival concept set in a dilapidated church on a mountainside. The design is built around one core principle: punish inaction, don't reward action. Standing still gets you killed. Combat
exists to give you something useful to do while you're moving, not as
the goal itself. Heavily inspired by the feel of Doom and Turbo
Overkill.GDD linked below.

+ Gameplay design focusing on simple objectives that reinforce the main goal of player movement through punishment instead of a reward cycle+ Game mechanics that can help and hurt players incentivizing creative thinking, such as slowing but healing waters, cover, and forced mobility+ Created level design sketch in Unity focusing on gameplay values and visual theming+ Player and enemy combat interactions as well as Enemy AI archetypes and ability concepts+ Created weapons that are side grades to default weapons but offer unique play styles for players

• Game Design Doc
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Elden Ring Boss Encounter

Baesr, the Halo’s Song

Elden Ring has always had optional bosses, but most of them still want to kill you. I wanted to design one that actively doesn't.Baesr is a siren who sits by the Enchanted Lake of Lúmenis. She is serene, gentle, genuinely happy to chat and share items with anyone who approaches peacefully. She's not a trap. She's not secretly evil. She's just… nice. And the game gives you the option to kill her anyway.The encounter is built around three emotionally distinct phases that mirror her state of mind: Phase 1 (The Plea) is defensive and sorrowful; she's dodging your attacks and literally begging you to stop, and if you do, she heals you both. The relationship is damaged, but repairable. Phase 2 (The Wrath) kicks in at 50% HP when grief becomes rage, the lake churns, the moon turns blood red, and she stops pulling her punches. There is no going back from this; you either leave and never see her again or kill her. Phase 3 (The Desperation) at 15% is a chaotic scramble; her attacks become erratic, her own spells start hitting her, and both you and her are just trying to survive.The environment tracks her arc the whole way. Serene lake → shadowed and sorrowful → blood moon and raging water → chaotic maelstrom. By the time she dies, the lake is silent, colourless, and completely still. No music. The contrast with what it looked like when you arrived does the narrative work.If you kill her, you get her Remembrance, tradeable for her Harp, the Moonlight Talisman, or her Cloak. And you get Baesr's Scale, a key item that does nothing except exist in your inventory and remind you of what you did. You can't drop it.The design goal was to create a boss that the community would genuinely argue about. Not "is she hard" but "did you kill her?" I'd love for that to be a real conversation people have.

• Her Design and Phase Document

Boss Design - Encounter Design Phase Design - Narrative Design Arena Design - GDD Authorship

Draw your way to victory

Arena Fight Club

The core idea: instead of pressing buttons to use abilities, you draw a sigil with your mouse. Hold left click, move in a pattern, release, and whatever you drew fires toward your cursor. The skill isn't in being precise with the drawing. The skill is in knowing your kit: which ability to use right now, how long it takes to draw while your opponent is moving, and whether it'll actually connect.The thing I'm most happy with is that each character's sigil design reflects their archetype. The Fire Mage draws flowing curves, kind of like a wizard tracing spells in the air. The Woad Warrior draws wild, scratchy slashes, fast and barbaric. The Country Ranger draws angular geometric lines, precise, mechanical, like tracing crosshairs and bullet paths. So even the act of playing a character feels different before you've cast anything.The three characters each have a resource system that creates a fundamentally different relationship with their kit. The Mage runs on mana that regens slowly, but her basic Firebolt restores mana, so she has to weave it in constantly to sustain the bigger spells. The Warrior uses stamina that regens fast enough to play aggressively, but her Guard and Vanguard Retreat both recover stamina mid-fight, rewarding good reads. The Ranger has 6 rounds of ammo that never regen passively, and Pistol Whip does more damage and gives a full reload when your gun is empty, so letting yourself run dry is actually the right call with the risk of having to be melee.The design pillars were: no two games should play the same, every ability should be counterable with proper reads, and the cast window should never exceed 1.5–2 seconds, fast enough that the sigil drawing doesn't interrupt the fight, just punctuates it.This was a jam concept and pitch, not a shipped build. But it has a full GDD, complete ability sheets with damage/CD/range numbers, and VFX sketches for the Mage's kit.

• Game Design Document
• Character Ability Rundowns

Class Design - Ability Design - Input Mechanic Design - Combat Design Rapid Prototyping - Game Jam

Very quick Vfx sketch for 3 of the mage character's abilities

Game Ruleset

Game positioning and the sketch that started the game ideation

Combat Design - System Design Number Balancing - Narrative & Gameplay interaction

Dice and card Party monster slaying game

Final Stand

Final Stand started from a question I kept coming back to: how do you make a 4v1 feel fair for both sides? One player controls a powerful Monster while four Heroes coordinate to survive or beat an alternate win condition. The core tension lives in that number gap, the Monster needs to feel genuinely threatening without being unbeatable, and the Heroes need to feel capable without making the Monster irrelevant.This project was an interesting challenge for me. I was intrigued by both the flavouring of table top games like Dnd and Pathfinder and also the adaptability of games like Uno. Players can change the rule sets to fit their tables, but the default rule set is both fun and balanced to get in and get started.

+ Designed for accessibility without sacrificing depth, dice and playing cards are universal, so the game runs at any table with no setup friction while still rewarding strategic play.+ Created a system that encouraged player creativity and roleplay+ Creating a system that has a defined ruleset but is very easy to adapt to any table

• Read More

Illustration of Howzer
within his lab in Piltover

Lol character concept

Howzer

Howzer is a support specialist hailing from Piltover. He was created for an exhibition where I wanted to tie him into an existing universe and storylines. For the exhibition, I also stepped into his mind and did journal entries as if he wrote them, writing about his thoughts, meta ability notes, and (taking a note out of his best friend's book) his exploration of Runterra searching for interesting ingredients for his potions.

+ Analysis and creation of a champion in an existing universe (League of Legends) filling a niche within its champion roster, a complex support+ System Design revolving around creating his abilities and balancing as well as Narrative Design tieing his gameplay with his story and personality+ Iterative design pattern of reassessing his goal and making tweaks to move closer+ Presented a game art exhibition to other devs and visual enjoyers

• Character Doc
• Hextech Synthesiser (custom item)
• Read More

“This should help... I mean I’m pretty sure I think it does”
- Howzer

Calculator comparing Hextech Syn. versus other League Items

lol custom support item

Hextech Synthesizer

Inspired by LoL Items that are related / from in-game characters. Enchanter-themed Sheen item that has inworld relevance to Howzer.I also created a damage calculator that takes in a champion's base value and item build to calculate different items effectiveness in Google Sheets.

+ Analysis and Understanding of other items in Hextech Synthesizer's class and creating one that fills a new niche+ System Design for Item creation and balancing for its intended class and to prevent abuse from others

• Howzer Character Doc
• Damage Calculator
• Read More

Concept for Creature Design and an overview of the church battlefield

Developer: Solo
Platform: PC, Console
Genre: Fantasy, Action, HacknSlash, Survival
Model: Concept
Modes: PvE

Enemy type and ai design - Behavioral Trees - player weapon options - core gameplay loop - combat design - level design

Demons, Swords, and Guns oh my!

Okon level Design
& Game Concept

Okon is a hack-and-slash survival concept set in a dilapidated church on a mountainside. The design is built around one core principle: punish inaction, don't reward action. Standing still gets you killed. Combat
exists to give you something useful to do while you're moving, not as
the goal itself. Heavily inspired by the feel of Doom and Turbo
Overkill.GDD linked below.

+ Gameplay design focusing on simple objectives that reinforce the main goal of player movement through punishment instead of a reward cycle+ Game mechanics that can help and hurt players incentivizing creative thinking, such as slowing but healing waters, cover, and forced mobility+ Created level design sketch in Unity focusing on gameplay values and visual theming+ Player and enemy combat interactions as well as Enemy AI archetypes and ability concepts+ Created weapons that are side grades to default weapons but offer unique play styles for players

• Game Design Doc
• Read More

Ninjas are Rad Mobile Stealth Game - Player Ability Concept

Tochi - Stealthy ninja strategy game

Tochi is a game concept that revolves around the player becoming a ninja who dashes around different maps. The player has to avoid the gazes of enemies at defiled hidden ninja temples using powerups like wind shurikens and teleportation. Indulging my love of all things glowy, the game is set on a neon-themed geometric landscape.One page GDD is attached below.

• Game Design Doc
• Detailed Breakdown/Methodology

Sample Concept Art for a moment-in-frame

+ Gameplay designed for a casual audience with simple but in-depth gameplay, especially for a mobile platform+ Created a pitch deck to showcase the game concept+ Focused on adaptable ability design to allow players to create builds+ Being a ninja is cool

Elden Ring Boss Encounter

Baesr, the Halo’s Song

Elden Ring has always had optional bosses, but most of them still want to kill you. I wanted to design one that actively doesn't.Baesr is a siren who sits by the Enchanted Lake of Lúmenis. She is serene, gentle, genuinely happy to chat and share items with anyone who approaches peacefully. She's not a trap. She's not secretly evil. She's just… nice. And the game gives you the option to kill her anyway.The encounter is built around three emotionally distinct phases that mirror her state of mind: Phase 1 (The Plea) is defensive and sorrowful; she's dodging your attacks and literally begging you to stop, and if you do, she heals you both. The relationship is damaged, but repairable. Phase 2 (The Wrath) kicks in at 50% HP when grief becomes rage, the lake churns, the moon turns blood red, and she stops pulling her punches. There is no going back from this; you either leave and never see her again or kill her. Phase 3 (The Desperation) at 15% is a chaotic scramble; her attacks become erratic, her own spells start hitting her, and both you and her are just trying to survive.The environment tracks her arc the whole way. Serene lake → shadowed and sorrowful → blood moon and raging water → chaotic maelstrom. By the time she dies, the lake is silent, colourless, and completely still. No music. The contrast with what it looked like when you arrived does the narrative work.If you kill her, you get her Remembrance, tradeable for her Harp, the Moonlight Talisman, or her Cloak. And you get Baesr's Scale, a key item that does nothing except exist in your inventory and remind you of what you did. You can't drop it.The design goal was to create a boss that the community would genuinely argue about. Not "is she hard" but "did you kill her?" I'd love for that to be a real conversation people have.

• Her Design and Phase Document

Learn and Recreate

Cave Story Level Design Analysis and Recreation

I unexpectedly developed a strong interest in this project. My research focused on Cave Story, particularly how players derive value from various weapons and their interactions with the game environment. I was intrigued by the "teach then execute" approach evident in the level design, which still permits players, regardless of their prior knowledge or skills, to explore alternative strategies. This principle is consistently present throughout the game, resulting in diverse and engaging playthroughs.The objective of this project was to analyze and comprehend how the game instructs players in gameplay mechanics. Subsequently, I aimed to apply these concepts to create my own level design that aligns with the game's underlying methodology.

• Game Analysis
• My Level Design

Very quick Vfx sketch for 3 of the mage character's abilities

Game Jam Concept and Documentation

Arena Fight Club

The core idea: instead of pressing buttons to use abilities, you draw a sigil with your mouse. Hold left click, move in a pattern, release, and whatever you drew fires toward your cursor. The skill isn't in being precise with the drawing. The skill is in knowing your kit: which ability to use right now, how long it takes to draw while your opponent is moving, and whether it'll actually connect.The thing I'm most happy with is that each character's sigil design reflects their archetype. The Fire Mage draws flowing curves, kind of like a wizard tracing spells in the air. The Woad Warrior draws wild, scratchy slashes, fast and barbaric. The Country Ranger draws angular geometric lines, precise, mechanical, like tracing crosshairs and bullet paths. So even the act of playing a character feels different before you've cast anything.The three characters each have a resource system that creates a fundamentally different relationship with their kit. The Mage runs on mana that regens slowly, but her basic Firebolt restores mana, so she has to weave it in constantly to sustain the bigger spells. The Warrior uses stamina that regens fast enough to play aggressively, but her Guard and Vanguard Retreat both recover stamina mid-fight, rewarding good reads. The Ranger has 6 rounds of ammo that never regen passively, and Pistol Whip does more damage and gives a full reload when your gun is empty, so letting yourself run dry is actually the right call with the risk of having to be melee.The design pillars were: no two games should play the same, every ability should be counterable with proper reads, and the cast window should never exceed 1.5–2 seconds, fast enough that the sigil drawing doesn't interrupt the fight, just punctuates it.This was a jam concept and pitch, not a shipped build. But it has a full GDD, complete ability sheets with damage/CD/range numbers, and VFX sketches for the Mage's kit.

• Game Design Document
• Character Ability Rundowns

Educational Learning Gamification

Orbitfall

Orbitfall was a game design test I recieved where the prompt was to gamify a learning concept from a list. The subject I chose was about entropy and learning about how it works and its applications.Orbitfall was the result of me adding simple skill and an educational approach, for a player to fundementally understand the concept while also having fun and encourgement to play more.Some goals for this project was ensuring that the player walked away with understanding of the concept, the mechanics and UI would fit within a mobile app, and that it wouldn't take more than 5 minutes of gameplay to complete.

• Game Design Document
• Character Ability Rundowns

The concept I drew to visualise the game

Early trailer done by another intern at Knucklebones

Publisher: Knucklebones
Developer: Knucklebones Entertainment
Platform: PC
Genre: Educational, Spelling
Model: F2P Demo
Team Size: ~ 20
Dev Cycle: ~ 1 year

• Detailed Breakdown

Astronaut themed kids spelling game

Wheel Steal

For my internship at Knucklebones, our job was to convert an original IP “Wheel Steal” into a playable digital format. The main goal we had was to make sure that the game was both fun and engaging as not only a single-player experience (also making sure that It was safe for the kids online) but also in a classroom setting as a fun educational game similar to things like Kahoot or Quizlet.

+ Brainstormed and designed game theming, core gameplay loop, mechanics, developmental roadmaps, and UI for a younger audience (ages 5 to 14)+ Created 3 character abilities to help showcase the fantasy of being a space spelling astronaut including VFX and UI assets for PC and mobile platforms in-engine+ Developed assets for character abilities and integrated level design playground set+ Collaborated with the narrative team to establish the game's story within the Knucklebones universe+ Led design interns, organizing meetings, assignments, and project scope as well as interactions with interdisciplinary teams

Ninjas are Rad Mobile Stealth Game - Player Ability Concept

Tochi - Stealthy ninja strategy game

Tochi is a game concept that revolves around the player becoming a ninja who dashes around different maps. The player has to avoid the gazes of enemies at defiled hidden ninja temples using powerups like wind shurikens and teleportation. Indulging my love of all things glowy, the game is set on a neon-themed geometric landscape.One page GDD is attached below.

• Game Design Doc
• Detailed Breakdown/Methodology

Sample Concept Art for a moment-in-frame

+ Gameplay designed for a casual audience with simple but in-depth gameplay, especially for a mobile platform+ Created a pitch deck to showcase the game concept+ Focused on adaptable ability design to allow players to create builds+ Being a ninja is cool

4 classes following the traditional fantasy archetypes of Warrior, Mage (who hates his tacky hat), Rogue, and Cleric. Except they are grooovy. Each class was designed with a melee and ranged weapon

Game concept sketch followed by a sample combat flow chart and a sample boss sketch

Roguelite Disco Themed Character Concepts

Disco Night Fight

A game and character concept revolving around a Disco themed party roguelite. I designed 4 characters and their skill sets with each getting 2 weapons (1 ranged, 1 melee). It was fun to create their designs and do the VFX for their weapon attacks.The game concept itself was quite simple. A dungeon crawl where players could pick up weapons with stat drops and abilities to clear said dungeon. I was aiming for something wacky and fun that would encourage couch co-op with other players.

Ludum Dare 55 Game Jam

Infernal Intern

This was a game jam game following the theme "Summoning". I worked on the initial game concept of being a wizard that summons things on request of a prompt and all of the art assets. We valued humor so some of the characters are.... something.There are 24 possible items that are chosen at random. From each, a combination of 3 types will form 1 of 18 different monsters, from a ferocious Werewolf, a sly Cyclops, a scantily-dressed Demon Lord or even Paris Hilton herselfDownloadable from the Ludum Dare page

• Ludum Dare Page

Bruna is my attempt at making a simplistic juggernaut who has clear strengths and weaknesses. She strives in team-fighting environments, but as a result, she is lackluster in her lane. Her ultimate is really what came first, as I loved the idea of the repositioning tool, and the rest of her kit was made to help her live her team-fighting dream.

• Her Design Document

Character Concepts

League of Legends Concepts
WIPS

League is probably the game I have the most time in. So as a result I tend to design the most things about it. I didn't want my portfolio to be fully about League of Legends designs (although it already has 2). So here is just a collection and a brief description of each :)